If you're a software engineer, developer, or sys admin who needs to get up to speed with DevOps quickly, this book covers the basics you need to thrive in a modern application stack. This book's fast-paced, hands-on examples will provide the foundation you need to start performing common DevOps tasks. You'll explore how to implement Infrastructure as Code (laC) and configuration management (CM)-essential practices for designing secure and stable systems. You'll take a tour of containerization and set up an automated continuous delivery (Cl/CD) pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys code. You'll dig into how to defect a system's state and alert on it when things go sideways. You'll learn how to: Create and provision an Ubuntu VM with Vagrant and Ansible, Manage users, groups, and password security, Set up public key and two-factor authentication over SSH, Automate and test a host-based Firewall, Use Docker to containerize applications and Kubernetes for orchestration, Build a monitoring stack and troubleshoot problems and performance issues, DevOps for the Desperate is a practical, no-nonsense guide to get you up and running quickly in today's full-stack infrastructure. Book jacket.